Just This

Achinoam, 29, arrives at a meditation center with lots of self-hatred and doubt, feeling too tall for this life. Through an encounter with a woman who is suffering from cancer , she allows herself to grow and stand tall in her own life. >>

My Lover, the Clock Thief

It all started with a watch, or more precisely, with over 106 rare European timepieces. One piece alone, made especially for ill-fated French queen Marie Antoinette, was valued at a whopping $30 million. On a quiet Friday evening in 1983, the collection disappeared from Jerusalem’s Museum of Islamic Art. It wasn’t seen again for a […] >>

How to be Alone

Listen to me: there is life without love. Loneliness is the soul’s forgotten desire. You don’t need anyone. Don’t search, don’t hope, don’t dream; and only then, perhaps, you too will learn how to be alone.” Based on Screenplay adapted from the short story” How To Be Alone”  by Orna Coussin. >>

Three Times Divorced

Khitam, A Gaza Band born Palestinian woman, was married off in an arranged match to an Israeli Arab, followed him to Israel and bore him six children. When her husband divorced her – in absentia – in the Sharia (Muslim) court he gained custody of the children and Khitam was left with nothing. She cannot […] >>

Sonia Tsofia

Sonia meets the love of her life, Ariel, the Jewish Agency volunteer. She follows him to Israel and they start a secret relationship until Sonia has finally converted to Judaism. There are many obstacles in their path. Will Sonia find herself in Israel? The search for a Home begins. >>

Mirrors – A portrait of the town of Yeruham 2016

Four short films that were born in a workshop held in Yeruham by film directors Robbie Elmaleh and Meital Abukasis. The local participants’ films present personal stories dealing with childhood, adolescence and the search for identity. They examine the importance of grace and charity in this life and in the Hereafter; the secret that attracts […] >>

From Now to Now

Part of “Moments, Israel 2002“: The well-known saying that “when the canons roar, the muses should be silent” should be put differently. When the situation is really bad, the muses should take shelter. The true muses will know when to be quiet and about what. >>

Psychedelic Zion

This film is an Israeli coming-of-age story. The 1990s saw the birth of a new youth culture in Israel – Trance – based on enormous parties set in nature, on computerized music, on New Age ideas and on drugs. In a short time, the trance party phenomenon in the Israeli periphery grew to proportions with […] >>

The Source of All Beauty

Yaeli is a 20-year-old Ultra-Orthodox woman, who dreams of love. Her heart is beating for David, a handsome and smart yeshiva boy, but Yaeli is also a barren woman. Yaeli’s father, a charismatic and strong man, is looking for a man with children for her, and is not willing to introduce his daughter to a […] >>

The Five Houses of Leah Goldberg

She died more than four decades ago, but even today, Leah Goldberg is still an enigmatic figure – she is Israel’s most beloved poet, a powerful woman, who lived with her mother and never married, a woman who invented herself from the ashes of World War I through her magical poetry. The film is a […] >>

The Ramadan Cannon of Jerusalem

Rajae Sanduka struggles with the daily hardships of a Palestinian resident of Jerusalem during the Holy month of the Ramadan, upholding a 120-year-old family tradition of firing the Ramadan cannon. In order to confront his frustrations without risk, he puts on a satirical play at the only remaining Palestinian theatre in the city. >>

The Bells Ringing – Ahuva Ozeri

In 1999, after a 23-year absence, gifted musician Ahuva Ozeri is planning a comeback. She’s recording a new album – The Bells are Ringing. Ahuva, considered the queen of the Middle Eastern music, sits at home and makes a living as a cook at a meat restaurant. She hopes to break out again with the […] >>

The Partisan With The Leica Camera

The story of Mundek Lukawiecki and his wife Hannah Bern, who fought the Nazis with the Polish partisans and hid in the forests. Mundek not only employed his bravery and cunning, but also his Leica camera, giving us a rare glimpse into the life of the partisans. >>

Rabin in his Own Words

20 years after his assassination, Yitzhak Rabin himself tells his dramatic life story. Without commentators or mediators, director Erez Laufer brings to the screen the story of one of Israel’s most prominent leaders in his own words. Through a combination of rare archive footage, home movies and private letters, his personal and professional dramas unfold […] >>

Sabotage

January 1945, four forced laborers women, Estusia Wajcblum, Rosa Robota, Alla Gartner, Regina Safirstein were hanged in public, accused of sabotaging the Nazi war machine. Sabotage unfolds the unknown story of the women’s underground operation in Auschwitz-Birkenau. A story of feminine heroism, resistance, and tragedy, told through the eyes of Anna Wajcblum Heilman, Estusia’s sister […] >>